In the second episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Jess Jurcek, an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We talk about the interconnections of climate change, industrial agriculture, and gender equity. Enjoy!

Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!

• Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
  
• Institute on the Environment at UMN: http://environment.umn.edu/
  
• Food Inc. Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
  
• A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Gimenez: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34793745-a-foodie-s-guide-to-capitalism
  
• Article by Holt-Gimenez: http://www.earthamag.org/stories/2018/1/29/our-food-system-isnt-broken-capitalism-is-what-is-wrong-with-it
  
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson: https://rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx
  

Sources:

“Community Health Risks of Industrial Agriculture.” Delivering Community Benefit: Healthy Food Playbook, Health Care Without Harm, 2018, foodcommunitybenefit.noharm.org/resources/community-health-needs-assessment/community-health-risks-industrial-agriculture.

Duckett, Maryellen Kennedy. “Empowering Female Farmers to Feed the World.” Nationalgeographic.com, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2021, www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/partner-content-empowering-female-farmers.

“The Hidden Costs of Industrial Agriculture.” Union of Concerned Scientists, 18 July 2011, www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agriculture.

Wes Jackson, Natural systems agriculture: a truly radical alternative, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-117, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00247-X.

Women Seed Change, SeedChange, 2019, weseedchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SeedChange-WSC_brochure-web.pdf.

Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.